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tnsttuctot Liietature Series— No» 197 




I STORY OF 

* LAFAYETTE 



1 




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Pable» and Myths 

6 Fairy Stories of the Moon.— Maguire 

27 ^sop's Fables — Part I — /better 

28 i5J^op's Fables— Part 11—Reiter 

29 Indian Myths — Bush 
140 Nursery Tales — Taylor 

174 Sun Myths — Reiter 

175 Norse I^egends, I — Reiter 
Nature 

1 l^ittle Plant People— Part \~Chase 

2 Little Plant People— Part \\— Chase 
30 Story of a Sunbeam — Miller 

.^i Kitty Mittens and Her Friends — Chase 
History 

32 Patriotic Stories (Story of the Flag, 

Story of Washington, etc.) — Reiter 
Literature 
230 Rhyme and Jingle Reader for Beginners 

SECOND YEAR 
Fables and Myths 

33 Stories from Andersen— Tay/or 

34 Stories from Grimm — Taylor 

36 Little Red Riding Uood— Reiter 

37 Jack and the Beanstalk — Reiter 

38 Adventures of a Brownie — Reiter 
1T6 Norse Legends, II— ^^'zVer 
Nature 

3 Little Workers (Animal Stories)— '"-^ui^^ 

39 Little Wood Friends — Mayne 

40 Wings and Stings — Halifax 

41 Story of Wool — Alaytie 

42 Bird Stories from the Poets— follie 
History and Biography 

43 Story of the Mayflower — McCabe 

45 Boyhood of Washington — Reiter 

164 The Little Brown Baby and Other Babies 

165 Gemila, the Child of the Desert and 

Some of Her Sisters 

166 Louise on the Rhine gud i,n Her New 

Home. (N^os. 164, i6s, 166 ure '■'Seven 
Little Sisteis" by fane, Andrews) 

204 Boyhood of L,iiicolu— Reiter 

Literature 

1 = 2 Child's Garden of Verses — Stevenson 

206 Picture Study Stories for Little Children 
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220 Story of the Christ Child — Husho7ver 

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46 Puss in Boots and Cinderella — Reiter 

47 Greek Myths — Klingensmiih 

102 Thtimbelina and Dream Stories — Reiter 
146 Sleeping Beauty and Other Sim ies 
177 Legends of the Rhineland— il/cCa*^^ 
Nsture 
49 Buds, Stems and Fruits — Mayne 

51 Story of Flax — Mayie 

52 Story of Glass — Hansov 



-Mayne 
135 Little People of the Hills (Dry Air a 

Dry Soil PXdiUt^)— Chase 
203 Little Plant People of the Waterway 

Chase 
133 Atint Martha's Corner Cupboard— P; 

I. Story of Tea and the Teacup 

137 Aunt Martha's Corner Cupboard— P; 

II. Story oi vSugar, Coffee audSalt. 

138 Aunt Martha's Corner Cupboard — P: 

III. Story of Rice, Currants and Hon 
History and Biography 

4 Story of Washington— ^^z7i?y 
7 Story of Longfellow— il/cCa^^ 
21 Story of the Pilgrims— i^ar? 5 
44 Famous Early Americans (Smith, St£ 
dish, Pe-a.VL)—Btish 

54 Story of Columbus — McCabe 

55 Story of Whittier— il/fCa^^ 

57 Story of Louisa M. Alcott— ^«^A 

58 Story of Alice and Phoebe Ca.iy—Mcl 

59 Story of the Boston Tea Party -McLi 
132 Story of Franklin— Tvn /J 

60 Children of the Northland- i?7<^/i 

62 Childrenof the South Lauds,! (Floric 
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63 Children of the South Lands, II (Afrh 
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64 Child Life in the Colouies— I (N. 

Amsterdam) — Baker 

65 Child Life in the Colouies — II (^Peuns 

\&-n.\2L)— Baker 

66 Child Life in the Colonies-IIl(Vtrg 

x^l)— Baker 

68 Stories of the Revolution— I (Eth 

Allen and the Green Mountain Bo; 

69 Stories of the Revolution— II (Aroil 

Philadelphia) — McCabe 

70 Stories of the Revolution— HI (Marii 

the Swamp Voyi)— McCabe 

71 Selections from Hiawatha (For 3rd, , 

and 5th Grades) 
167 Famous Artists, I — Laudseer and B. 

heur. 
Literature 

67 Story of Robinson Crusoe — Bush 

72 Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew— Ooz'^ 

233 Poems Worth Knowing-Book l-Prim; 

FOURTH YEAR 
Nature 

75 Story of Coal — McKane 

76 Story of Wheat— //c/z/a.*' 

77 Story of Cotton — Brozvn 

78 Stories of the Backwoods — Reiter 
134 Couquests of Little PI aut People— C/i 
136 Peeps into Bird Nooks, I- McFee 

181 Stories of the S\.a.vs— McFee 
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INSTRUCTOR LITERATURE SERIES 



Story of Lafayette 



BY 

Bertha E. Btish 




F. A. OWEN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 
DANSVILLE, N. Y. 



Copyright, iyi2, by F. A. Owen FubUshin(t Company 




LAFAYETTE 



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Lafayette, the Man of Two Worlds 

'*! have come, sir," said the youDg noble, "to offer 
my sword and my fortune to the service of the United 
States of America." 

The American commissioner, Silas Deane, looked at 
the boyish face. Only nineteen years old was Lafayette 
when he thus, offered himself to the cause of liberty. 

*'It is a boyish whim," thought the American with a 
sigh. Then a temptation came to him. He remembered 
how very rich this eager, red-haired boy was. When he 
was only thirteen years old the death of all his imme- 
diate relatives had left him the sole possessor of immense 
estates and revenues. He was without father or mother 
or any guardian to restrain him frpm spending his vast 
wealth in any way he chose. There did not lack flat- 
terers and tempters who were urging him to spend it in 
wicked ways. Why should Silas Deane, who loved his 
country as his life, endeavor to dissuade this youLg 
French nobleman from coming to her assistance ? Forty 
thousand dollars a year was Lafayette's annual income. 
This amount spent for the suffering, half-clad, half- 
starved, pitifulh^ equipped American soldiers might 
turn the present defeat into victory. Why should this 
boy not be encouraged to carry out his whim, since it 
would do such an immense amount of good? 

It was a great temptation to the commissioner. Sup- 
pose the thing you planned and hoped for most in life 
was failing just because of your poverty, and just at that 



4 THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 

moment someone should offer you money enough to carry 
out all your designs ! Supx)Ose it were offered to you 
freely and gladly, and the owner wished you to spend it ! 
Would you have the strength of mind to say, ''I thank 
you beyond words for your kindly offer, but I cannot 
accept because, my plans are too hazardous ?' ' 

This was the way the American commissioners felt 
when Lafayette offered them his sword and fortune for 
their cause. Hard as it was, they did have the strength 
of mind to refuse what they wanted more than anything 
in the world. Gently they pointed out to the young 
man that the attempt to bring independence to the thir- 
teen colonies across the water might be considered hope- 
less. There had been bad news from America. Defeat 
after defeat had come to the Continental arms till their- 
best friends felt that it was beginning to be useless to 
keep up the struggle. They told the young Lafayette 
that their government could not accept his generous offer 
because they had not even enough money to provide a 
ship to take him to xA.merica. 

* 'Tlien I will furnish the ship myself, ' ' said Lafaj^ette. 

Suppose after you had bravely refused the offer which 
would have saved your dearest desire from failing, the 
maker had insisted on your taking it and generously ar- 
ranged matters so that you must do it whether you con- 
sented to the sacrifice or no. Then you would know how 
the American commissioners felt on that day. 

''I thank you for your frankness," said Lafayette, 
**but now is precisely the moment to serve your cause 
best. The more people are discouraged, the greater 
utility will result from my departure to help them. If 
you cannot furnish me with a vessel, I will purchase it 
myself and freight it at my own expense to convey your 
dispatches and myself to America. ' ' 

It was the very darkest year of the Revolutionary War. 



THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 5 

The news that had come to Paris was most distressing 
and alarming — the retreat from Long Island, the loss of 
New York, the battle of W'hite Plains and the retreat 
through New Jersey. It was certain that the British 
would capture the American capital, Philadelphia. 
Sadl^ the patriots abroad were giving up the hope that 
our country would be freed. 

They told Lafayette so. He was little more than a 
boy. It did not seem right to let him give his fortune 
to the cause, no matter how much they and he loved it, 
since it was in such soi-e straits. It seemed that from 
his doing so, his fortune and his efforts and all the future 
honors that would come to him from his own country 
would be lost. 

But the young ** knight of liberty" was not dismayed. 

''It is especially in the hour of danger that I wish to 
share," he answered to their dismal forebodings. He 
would rather lose his fortune and his life than not help 
in the cause. 

The king of France heard of his offer and absolutely 
forbade his going. That made no difference to Lafayette. 
He got out of the French port by strategy, and away he 
sailed, putting himself under the liability of being ex- 
ecuted as a deserter from his own king and country, but 
minding his danger not a whit. 

''From the moment that I first heard the name of 
America, I loved her, ' ' he said. It was not the name 
of the unknown country that thrilled him so, but the 
freedom that country stood for. It was this that made 
him pledge himself and all that he had to the cause of 
liberty in America, and offer his life for that country's 
service. 

Marie Joseph Paul Eoche Yves Gilbert Motier, Mar- 
quis de Lafayette was a boy whom fortune could not 
spoil. He had had plenty of chances to be spoiled. An 



6 THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 

only son of a wido^yed mother, becoming heir in tiniest 
babyhood to great estates, a nobleman of one of the most 
ancient houses of France, with all the privileges of no- 
bility, and becoming altogether his own master at thir- 
teen years old, through the death of his mother and 
grandfather, each of whom left him an additional for- 
tune, it would be hard to find a boy who had a greater 
chance of being ruined. 

The French court, gay and luxurious beyond descrip- 
tion, was open to him. He was chosen one of the pages 
of the queen, and that was the greatest honor in the 
kingdom to a boy. We may be sure that theie were 
hundreds around him who tried to entrap him with lux- 
ury and vice to get the spending of his money. But he 
was absolutely uncorrupted. 

*'I cannot remember when I began to love liberty," 
he said. *'As far back as I can remember, I loved to 
hear of glorious deeds, and I planned to travel over the 
world and win fame by them. At eight years of age, 
my, heart was stirred when I heard of a hyena that had 
done some injury in our neighborhood, and the hope of 
meeting it w^as the object of all my walks." 

He had been married, according to the custom of 
young nobles of the time, when he was seventeen years 
■old. Most of these marriages were arranged simply to 
unite family fortunes, with no love in them, but Lafay- 
ette loved his young bride dearly. He was, however, 
like the brave lover in the old poem who said, 

"I could not love thee, dear, so much, 
Loved I not honor more." 

It was a sore grief to part from her and go to America, 
but he never faltered. His relative, the Count de Brog- 
lie, tried to dissuade him from offering his services to 
the struggling patriots. 



THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 7 

' ' Your uncle perished in the wars of Italy, ' ' he said 
to the young man. ''Your father fell in the battle of 
Minden. I will not be accessory to the ruin of the only 
remaining branch of the family. I earnestly entreat you 
to give up this wild plan which means only poverty and 
suffering to you, and stay here and enjoy the wonderfully 
good fortune which every young man in the kingdom 
envies you. ' ' 

But Lafayette could not be dissuaded. He set sail 
for America, and took with him Baron DeKalb, another 
brave foreigner who fought for us in many battles and 
finally gave his life on the field of Camden. 

They had a stormy voyage across the Atlantic. It 
took sixty days. One day they passed two British men- 
of-war cruising for prizes in the West Indian waters, 
and barely escaped. The sailors who worked the ship 
mutinied. The man at the wheel did not know the course 
he should take. But the mutiny was quelled, the right 
course was found, more by good fortune than by skill, 
and they reached the coast of South Carolina in the dark- 
ness of the night. 

Lafayette could not wait for the tide. He and DeKalb 
got into a small boat and were rowed to shore in the 
darkness. Here under the midnight sky they joined 
hands and solemnly pledged themselves and all they had 
to the cause of liberty in America. The first house they 
went to in this country belonged to a southern planter 
named Major Benjamin Huger. This man had a little 
son named Francis, not more than four years old at the 
time. Lafayette took the little fellow up on his knee 
and talked to him, delighting in his brightness. Little 
did either of them think that in after years Lafayette 
should be in prison and this little boy, grown to be a 
young man, should be the one who planned and attempted 
Jiis rescue. 



8 THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 

The American commissioner, knowing that it was held 
by the nobles of France as a disgrace for one of their 
number to serve as a common soldier, had offered La- 
fayette the position of major-general in our army if he 
should carry out his intentions and cross to America to 
fight in our cause. But Congress, blinded to his true 
worth and beset bv many foreign ad\enturers who de- 



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Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge 

sired positions in the army as a means to their own ends, 
refused to give him the promised commission. A man 
who was seeking honor for himself, even a good man, 
would have turned away in hurt pride. But young La- 
fayette had no thought of withdrawing his promised aid. 

'*Yery well," he said quietly, "I will serve as a vol- 
unteer." And this was the only message he sent to 
Congress in regard to the injustice. 

'* After the sacrifices I have made," the message ran, 
*'I have the right to exact two favors : one is to serve at 



THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 9 

my own expense, the other is to serve at first as a vol- 
unteer. 

Wliat sacrifices bad he made? He liad left the young 
wife whom he tenderly loved. He had left all the lux- 
uries that wealth could obtain and the delights that the 
most luxurious court in the world could bestow. He had 
matle himself liable to disgraceful punishment by disre- 
garding the king's command to keep himself and his 
fortune in France. He had fitted out his own ship. He 
bad already purchased clothing and arms for a company 
of American soldiers. He bad offered his fortune as 
well as his services to carry on this struggle in a strange 
land and proved be.yond a question that the offer was 
made in good faith. He had done this because he felt 
that the war of the newly formed American states was a 
struggle for liberty. Congress came to see this at last, 
and made him a major-general and — we are amused to 
note — "placed no restrictions upon the amount of ex- 
pense be might choose to pay out of his annual income 
of forty thousand dollars a year." 

In his very first battle he was wounded. It was at 
Brandy wine, and the American soldiers were retreating, 
overwhelmed by an army much greater in numbers and 
better armed. Lafayette leaped down from his horse and 
fought in the ranks, rallying bis men. A musket ball 
tore a great bole in bis leg. He did not know he was 
wounded till bis aide saw blood running from bis boot. 
His soldiers helped him on his horse, and for twelve 
miles he rode without drawing rein, striving all that time 
to check the retreat. 

But for a long time the retreat could not be checked. 
Chester Road was full of fuj2:itiv^es with cannon, baggage, 
and all the broken fragments of an army, hurrying for- 
ward and obstructing each other. The cannon of the 
enemy thundered behind them. Dust and uproar and 



10 



THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 



confusion made chaos everywhere. The growing dark- 
ness was a fit smybol of the despair that was settling 
over the defeated American army. But despair, however 
direfuUy it might hover around, and however disastrous 
the defeat, did not settle where Washington and Lafay- 
ette were. At Chester 
there was a deep stream 
that could only be 
crossed by a bridge. 
Before this bridge La- 
fayette set a guard and 
so he once more brought 
the panicstricken regi- 
ments under control. 

It was his last fight- 
ing for many weeks. 
For two months he was 
in the hospital, but his 
enforced leisure was not 
wasted for the cause. 
Day after day he put in 
writing such persuasive 
letters to France that 
the French minister 
said, 

"He will end by un- 
fufnishing the palace 
of Versailles to serve 
the American cause, for 
when he has taken any- 
thing into his head, it 
is impossible to resist 
him." 

''Yes," said Lafayette when told of these words of 
the minister, ''I would." 




Lafayette Monument 

Erected by citizens and school chilrlren of 
Cliester County, Pa. 
Braudywiue. 



on the Battlefield of 



THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 11 

Before his wouiKled leg was able to wear a boot, lie 
was out of the hospital and starting away with the ex- 
pedition that went against Lord Cornwallis. 

The British commander called him "the boy" and 
was sure that no effort would be recAiired to defeat him. 

"The. boy cannot escape me," he said. But there 
came a time when "the boy," pursued, turned suddenly 
into the pursuer, and Cornwallis had to retire before him. 

One place where Lafayette thoroughly outwitted a 
very confident British commander was at Barren Hill. 
This hill was situated about half way between the pitiful 
camp at Yalley Forge, where the half-naked patriots were 
freezing and starving for love of country, and Philadel- 
phia, which the British were occupying and filling with 
all sorts of extravagant gaieties. It was rightly believed 
that the British had decided to evacuate Philadelphia. 
Washington sent Lafayette with two thousand men to 
cross the Schuylkill, and take ut3 a post as an advance 
guard to the American army, ready to harass the rear of 
tlie enemy as soon as they should move. 

"You will remember that your detachment is a very 
valuable ojje, " said Washington as he gave the order, 
"and that an accident happening to it would be a very 
severe blow to the amn'. " 

We may be sure that the young general realized this, 
and determined to use every effort to guard against a 
surprise. But just what danger he should take his de- 
tachment out of, Washington did not dream. 

The British did succeed in surprising them. Some- 
body had disobeyed Lafayette's orders, not intentionally, 
but carelessly. A change of position had been made that 
was not reported to him, and an important post left un- 
guarded. Through this the British marched ; and before 
he found it out, he was surrounded. 

The British general, Sir William Howe, had planned 



12 THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 

this, and was altogether sure that his plan would be 
successful. 

* 'Tomorrow," he had said to a company of ladies on 
the 18th of May, "I invite you to a banquet to meet the 
Marquis de Lafayette who will be our prisoner." 

But to capture Lafayette was a good deal like the 
time-honored plan of catching a bird by putting salt on 
its taiL The British got almost near enough to catch 
him. His situation was desperate ; it seemed impossible 
for him to escape. Five thousand select British troops 
were at his rear, cutting off his march back to Valley 
Forge. Another strong British division faced his right 
flank, and the main column of the British army, led by 
Howe himself, marched out from the city and faced him 
in the front. He could neither go backward nor forward. 
He seemed to be completely entrapped. Washington, 
from a distance, saw it through his field glasses, and 
even his brave heart gave up Lafayette and his men for 
lost. 

But Lafayette was not a general to march into a place 
where there was but one way out. There was another 
road from Barren Hill, an obscure trail hidden by under- 
brush, that the British did not know. We wonder who 
showed it to Lafayette. Was it some boy about as old 
as those who read this story in school ? 

Lafayette formed a few of his men into apparent heads 
of columns, starting to advance toward the British in 
front. The trees that covered the hilltop concealed all 
the rest of the men from view. Silently, while the false 
heads of columns were just showing through the trees, 
seemingly ready to begin to advance, Lafayette marched 
the rest of the men away by the concealed road. 

*'Why don't they come on?" said the British, impa- 
tiently viewing the heads of the columns. They had 
not the slightest doubt that they would, as boys say, 



THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 13 

'Svipe the earth with them" as soon as they did come. 

But they never came.- Presently, to the great surprise 
of the British, they moved back into the woods. Tliey 
had joined in at the rear of their comrades and were well 
on their way to safety before the British commanders 
realized what was happening. So Lafayette got away 
from the net spread around him, and led his detachments 
back to Valley Forge in perfect order without the loss 
of a man. The ladies who had been invited did not see 
General Lafayette at the banquet that night, and General 
Howe was late for supper. 

A little more than a year after this. Congress deter- 
mined to present Lafayette a sword that should be a 
memorial of what he did for our country. The sword 
was a beautiful weapon, designed and executed by the 
best artists of that time. The knob of the handle showed 
on one side a shield with Lafayette's arms and his fam- 
ily motto. On the other side was pictured a crescent 
moon rising over the sea, with the coast of France in the 
foreground and the continent of America in the distance. 
This was meant to signify the spirit of liberty which was 
rising and growing by means of the struggle in which 
Lafayette had so generously engaged. On the curved 
parts of the guard were four medallions, each represent- 
ing Lafayette in some action, and*labeled : 

''The Battle of Gloucester," "The Eetreat at Barren 
Hilh" "The Battle of Monmouth," and "The Eetreat 
of Pvhode Island. ' ' 

Before the war was over, there were many other battle 
names that might, even more appropriately, have been 
inscribed upon the sword. It was Lafayette's clever 
planning that caught the very Cornwallis who had boasted 
that " ihe boy' ' could not escape him in the trap at York- 
town, and so compelled the surrender, and the success of 
the American arms. It was Washington who, with his 



14 THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 

heroic determination, unshaken patience, clear vision of 
what was right, and the spirit that would not give up 
though assailed with defeat and slander and abuse and 
suffering, won the Kevolutionary War. But Washington 
would have felt that he lacked his right hand if Lafay- 
ette had not been there to help him. 




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The Council of War Before Monmouth 

''America could not do without Washington," says a 
writer of the time, ''but Washington could not do with- 
out Lafayette. ' ' The friendship between these two men, 
one so much older than the other, is one of the most 
beautiful things in our history. 

^''Take care of him as if he were my own son," said 
Washington to the doctor when the young Frenchman 
was wounded. 



THE STORY bF LAFAYETTE 15 

''I love everybody that is dear to you," he wrote to 
him once ; and the affectionate reverence with which La- 
fayette regarded Washington can hardly be described. 

It was at a public dinner that the two first met, and 
Washington, who had heard of the generous zeal of the 
young marquis, that "glorious boy" as soniebody called 
him, invited him at once to make his headquarters in the 
house he occupied. 

"I cannot promise you the luxuries of a court," he 
said, mindful of what the young nobleman had given up, 
**but, as ."you have become an American soldier, you will 
doubtless accommodate yourself to the fare of an Amer- 
ican soldier. 

Did he ? He never thought of counting it a hardship. 
Bread and salt, with Washington, was more to him than 
the most luxurious banquet in the court of a king. 
Sometimes, indeed, during the long, hard struggle the 
fare was reduced to that, or something less palatable 
tl;an bread, with no salt at all. But Lafayette never 
thought longingly of the fleshpots of France in compari- 
son with this scanty fare. He held it a privilege and a 
glory to share with the patriot soldiers, and most of all, 
with Washington. And we feel today that there could 
hardly have been a greater honor than to have slept under 
Washington's cloak with him on the field of battle. 

He had a chance to prove his faithfulness to his chief 
such as is seldom given to an under officer. We think 
of Washington as praised by all men as he is now, but 
it was not so in Kevolutionary days. Instead, he was 
perhaps the most abused and vilified man in all the 
country. His motives were impugned. His wisest plans 
were misunderstood and decried. While he- was doing 
the very best that could be done for his country under 
the circumstances existing, he was blamed as if he had 
been designedly doing the worst. False and malicious 



16 THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 

charges were made against him. A regular plot was 
formed to deprive him of his position as commander-in- 
chief and bring him down in dishonor. The jealous and 
malicious detractors of Washington did their utmost to 
get Lafayette over on their side. So popular and so 
brilliant the young Frenchman was that they felt that to 
win him would be to win the whole country. They were 
sure that if once Lafayette could be got, however inno- 
cently, into their nefarious scheme, its success was as- 
sured. 

They promised him the highest rank and command. 
They criticized what Washington had done, and said 
that Gates was far superior as a general. They brought 
up Gates' successes in the north and set in contrast the 
defeats and retreats that had been the portion of Wash- 
ington's army. They thought they could slander Wash- 
ington until Congress removed him, or make him so 
angry that he would resign in disgust. But Washington 
loved his country too much to stop to consider his own 
hurt pride. He paid no attention to their vilifyiug, but 
went on doing the best he could, not one whit deterred 
by lies and ingratitude. 

They could not make him resign, but th«y could hin- 
der his plans in many ways, and they did. They kept 
away the supplies that were desperately needed by his 
army. While his men were shivering, barefoot and half 
clad, and scarcely half fed, in the snow at Valley Forge, 
hogsheads of provisions, shoes, clothing, and all kinds 
of supplies were rotting in store-houses or moulderin-^ 
on the roads thither, enough to supply all their need. 

The enemies of Washington did not scruple to use 
every means, fair or unfair, to turn Lafayette away from 
his general ; but they might as well have tried to keep 
the sun from rising. Lafayette never swerved one hair's 
breadth from his chosen chief. When propdsals against 



THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 17 

Washington were made, he indiguantlj^ spurned them. 
Finding the}^ did not cease, he took them to Washingtoji. 
They could not win Lafayette away, but they could sep- 
arate him from Washington. Secretly and unknown to 
the commander-in-chief, they wrote to Lafayette offering 
him the command of an expedition to Canada in which 
they assured him that he would win great honor. They 
promised him wonderful assistance and any amount of 
men and supplies. Lafayette handed the letter over to 
Washington, and asked what he should do. Without 
one angry word at the indignity offered to himself by 
planning such an important movement without the knowl- 
edge and sanction of the commander-in-chief, Washing- 
ton advised his young friend to accept the appointment 
as it was an honorable one for him. 

In high spirits Lafayette set off. The troops were to 
be furnished by the northern states, and he was to take 
charge of them at Alban.y. He was promised that *' con- 
sidering the length of the route into that country in au 
inclement season" his men should be particularly warmly 
clothed, and a great store of provisions should be given 
him. They told him, too, that General Stark, with a 
large army, should be waiting for him at the rendezvous^ 
and that before that he would have burnt the British 
fleet on the northern lakes. 

Lafayette made his way to Albany in ice and snow, 
through difficulties that can hardly be imagined in these 
days of prepared roads and modern traveling conveniences. 
But when he got to the tavern where the meeting between 
the leaders had been appointed, nobody was there. A 
feeble army had been raised, but instead of the more 
than two thousand five hundred thoroughly equipped and 
warmly clad soldiers that he had been promised, he 
found a scant twelve hundred, and most of them '* naked, 
even for a summer campaign. ' ' Of General Stark the 



THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 19 

only word he obtained, was a letter from him wishing to 
know "what number of men, from whence, for what time, 
for what rendezvous, Lafayette wished him to raise. ' ' 

It was evidentl.y hopeless to undertake the expedition. 
Many times before Lafayette had purchased clothing for 
the soldiers under his command,- at his own expense, but 
many things beside this lack rendered the attempt an 
undertaking impossible to succeed. It was already in 
the depth of winter. If they had been all ready to start, 
the issue would have been doubtful. Bitterh^ mortified, 
Lafayette was compelled to give up the plan. 

"I can assure you, my dear and respected friend," 
he wrote to Washington, "that I am more unhappy than 
ever I was. ' ' 

He had been desired by those who appointed him to 
the position to write to his friends in Europe about this 
expedition over which he was placed in command, and 
he had made much of it, as they desired him to do. He 
felt that he would become a laughing stock if it came to 
nothing. And yet there was plainly no use in attempt- 
ing it. 

"I am afraid that it will reflect on my reputation and 
I shall bti lauglied at," he wrote sadly to Washington. 
"I confess, my dear General, that I find myself of very 
quick feelings whenever my reputation and glory are 
concerned in anything. 

Washington, so used to unjust blame, comforted him, 
and he went back to Valley Forge more than glad to be 
in any position in which he could be near his general. 

A pretty story is told of these times which would make 
us love loyal young Lafayette if we had not done it be- 
fore. It was at a dinner to which he was invited by the 
plotters against Washington. All sorts of grand prom- 
ises had been made to him. Toasts were being drunk 
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tbouiilit tliey had him on their side. But at the close 
of the banquet, the young Frenchman rose and said 
gravely, 

"Gentlemen, I perceive that one toast has been omit- 
ted, and I now propose it. Gentlemen, let us drink to 
the Commander-in-Chief of the American Army. 

It does our hearts good to think how Gates and Con- 
way and the others in the secret must have looked : and, 
knowing iiow things turned out, we do not mind now that 
"that toast was received without cheering." 

Meanwhile, in France Lafayette's efforts and inspira- 
tion had been working much as the tiny particles of yeast 
work in the flour that is to make bread. It had taken a 
long time to diffuse itself through the mass, but it had 
worked unceasingly. On February 6, 1778, France ac- 
knowledged the independence of the United States and 
made a treaty with them. Then came the battle of Mon- 
mouth, which would have been an American success if 
it had not been for Lee's disobedience of Washington's 
orders, and after that Lafayette felt that the best work 
he could do for America for a while would be in France. 
So he sailed away in February, 1779. 

Times had blessedly changed in France in regard to 
the i\.merican cause. Lafayette had made himself liable 
to be punished by leaving the country in direct disobe- 
dience to his king's orders ; but now the king felt differ- 
ently. Lafayette was punished to keep up the dignity 
of the crown ; but his imprisonment consisted of an order 
to stay in his own home for a week. It was expressly 
stated that no one but his own family should visit him 
in his "prison" ; but his family connection was so large 
that practically the whole court of France did so. Then, 
with a gentle reproof from the king, he was again ad- 
mitted to favor, and found himself the idol of the hour. 

He immediatelv busied himself in the accomplishment 



22 THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 

of magnificent plans which he had formed for the benefit 
of America. He proposed to the French government that 
*'five ships of the line with half tlieir crews should be 
hired for one year for the service of the United States," 
and "as for the necessary funds," said he, "the gov- 
ernment should pledge itself only in case that it should 
exceed my fortune. ' ' It was he who cemented the French 
Alliance which was of the greatest importance in the 
gaining of the independence of America. Then he sailed 
back in time to take part, under Washington's direction, 
in the final campaign against Cornwallis which ended at 
Yorktown. It was at the beginning of this campaign 
that Cornwallis said, * ' The boy cannot escape me. ' ' He 
ended it by discovering that he could not escape the boy. 

Again Lafayette went back to France to assist the 
American cause there, and it was his ship that carried 
the first news of the signing of the treaty of peace to 
America. When peace was firmly established, he went 
back to America to visit Washington, and he received 
such an ovation from the country he had helped to free 
that the account of it rings like a chime of festal bells 
through the pages of our history. 

Following this came the French Eevolution. Alas ! 
France had no Washington ! The French Eevolution was 
begun in purest patriotism, but ended by being a carn- 
ival of bloodiest lawlessness. Lafayette did as much as 
he could for liberty in France. In the beginning he was 
the idol of the people. He was bound to the nobles and 
the common people alike. The nobility loved him be- 
cause he was one of themselves. The common people, 
who in this revolution soon became so much more power- 
ful than the nobility, loved him because he stood for 
their rights. It was really wonderful that he, a noble- 
man, should do what he did. It was he who framed 
that wonderful "Declaration of the Eights of Man" that 



THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 23 

is , as important as our Declaration of Independence. 
Beading it, we, who have been brought up in a free re- 
public, see nothing that seems very different to iis from 
what we have always known ; but it overturned every- 
thing that France had been accustomed to believe since 
the days of chivalry. 

There had been terrible oppressions in France, worse 
than we who have always lived in free America can im- 
agine. The kings and nobles were so used to being cruel 
and unjust to the peasants that they did not even realize 
their cruelty and injustice. They treated them far worse 
than their horses or hogs. There was profit in caring 
for the comfort of the beasts, but the only profit from a 
peasant was to squeeze out of him everything he could 
gain. The common people were beaten ; they were struck 
down ruthlessly if they chanced to anger their masters ; 
they were taxed till they actually died of starvation ; 
they were dreadfully hurt and even killed, and no one 
called to accouut for it. At last they rose against their 
oppressors, as all oppressed will some time. 

Perhaps the greatest wonder in the story is how La- 
fayette, a noble with one of the proudest names and 
richest estates in all the kingdom, could ever have im- 
bibed those principles of liberty from which he never 
swerved amid the fiercest temptation. Did some tutor 
of his boyhood teach them to him? We wonder what 
was his name. Did his gentle mother, who was herself 
of royal blood ? Did some of his kinsmen, who were the 
highest nobles in the. land? If Lafayette had fallen 
under the temptations of the time and become himself a 
tyrant as Napoleon did, we could scarcely have wondered. 
He was a general skilled in war, and he held the hearts 
of all the French jjeople in his hand. He had all the 
chance that Napolecm did to rise, and far more. He 
could have gained the imperial power more easily than 



24 THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 

Napoleon did. But he firmly put away from him every 
ambition for self, everything that would not work to the 
absolute good of his country. 

' ' The sole end of all government is the public good, ' ' 
he had declared in that famous Declaration of the Rights 
of Man that was adopted by the French Assembly. 

He had fought for the establishment of a republic in 
America, but he believed that France was not yet ready 
for a republic. A constitutional government, with a king 
bound by the constitution, and responsible for obeying 
it and making others obey it, was his ideal for his 
country. When the maddened mob rose against ' the 
king and queen, he protected them, even as he had pro- 
tected the people ajiainst the king and nobles. He was 
the commander-in-chief of the French army. Again and 
again he stood for law and order, and made the citizens 
of France yield to it. He had voluntarily given up all 
the honors that came to him through birth and family. 
He had laid aside his title of marquis and desired to be 
called nothing but plain ' ' Citizen Lafayette. ' ' 

For a long while he was. fairly idolized in France. 
He could do what no one else could to control the tur- 
bulent on both sides. The nobles believed in him be- 
cause he was one of them, and belonged to one of the 
proudest and most ancient families of them all. The 
common people loved him because he stood up for their 
liberties, and had not joined in any of the oppressions 
that roused them. 

When the Bastile, that terrible prison in which hun- 
dreds and thousands of innocent victims, unjustly im- 
prisoned without even a trial, because they had chanced 
to anger the king or get in the way of some of his nobles, 
had met a living death, was torn down by the aroused 
people of Paris, the key was given to Lafayette. He 
sent it to Washington, his dearest friend, and the living 



THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 25 

embodiment in his nniicl of the liberty he desired for 
France. You can see the gr^at key in Mt. Vernon today. 
Once it was the symbol of the cruelest tyranny and shut 
thousands away from life and hope. Now it is the sym- 
bol of tyranny overthrown and liberty opened to man. 

But the Jacobin faction got possession of the French 
Assembly, and their acts were worse than the tyranny of 
the worst kings had been. If it had not been for them, 
the French devolution would have stopped when the king 
signed the Constitution, and everything would have gone 
well. That was what Lafayette wanted. But the Jaco- 
bins let their rancor quite run away with them, and came 
to desire nothing but revenge and bloodshed. 

Now came the awful Se[)tember Jail Delivery which 
was nothing less than a terrible massacre. Hired assas- 
sins were sent to go through the prisons, the churches, 
and all the places where Royalists were imprisoned or 
had taken refuge, and their slain bodies were piled up 
in heaps. From six to fourteen thousand were butchered 
in those awful days. The king and queen were executed, 
and the little iJrince who was heir to the throne so hor- 
ribly treated that he died of neglect and a loathsome 
prison disease. And then followed the awful Reign of 
Terror. 

Lafayette had retired to private life after the consti- 
tution was established. The Jacobins had no wish to 
call him out again. They feared him as a bad man fears 
the power of good. They feared the people too much 
to have him killed openly, but that made them only the 
more active in laving plots against his life. Indeed they 
had reason to fear his influence. He wasn't in the least 
afraid of denouncing their atrocities, and had written 
and published a letter accusing them, such as no other 
man in France would have dared to put out. They saw 
that Lafayette must be silenced in some way if they were 




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THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 27 

to stand. A solemn oath was taken to destroy him. All 
his honors were taken away, and a decree of accusation 
enjoined his soldiers and every citizen to seize him at 
sight and bring him to his enemies. 

The very mob who had made him their idol, now, 
fickle and faithless, shouted for his blood. Lafayette 
made an effort to escape, and went to the Netherlands, 
intending to go from there to America. But some Aus- 
trian officers discovered him, and, though it was in every 
way unfair and against the law of nations, they seized 
him and made him an Austrian prisoner. He was- thrown 
into a secret dungeon, and his presence carefully con- 
cealed from everyone, so tliat only a tiny handful of his 
enemies knew wliere Lafayette was. 

A long time before, when he had just come back from 
his successful struggle for liberty in America, Lafayette 
had been sent for by Frederick the Great. The great 
Prussian king had asked him questions that brought out 
very clearly tiiat the young Frenchman would like to see 
the liberty that he had fought for "in America given to 
the countries of Europe. 

"Sir," said Frederick then, with one of his penetra- 
ting looks, "I knew a young man once, who, after visiting 
countries where liberty and equality reigned, conceived 
the idea of establishing the same system in his own 
country. Do you know what happened to himV" 

"No, sire," answered Lafayette. 

"He was hanged," answered the king. 

The meaning was evident. Lafayette had attempted 
to do what the mythical youug man, who so much re- 
sembled him, had attempted, and the result to himself, 
although carried on by a longer process, bade fair to be 
the same death. 

When he entered the gloomy, hidden dungeon at 01- 
mutz, he was told that he would never come out alive. 



28 THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 

His hands and feet were chained. He was treated worse 
than the lowest criminal would be in our countrj^ and his 
sufferings were so great that they brought oa an illness 
from which he barely escaped with his life. 

It was from this prison at Olmutz that the young 
North Carolinian, Francis Huger, who had been a four- 
year-old when Lafaj^ette first came to America and was 
entertained in his father's house, tried to rescue him. 
The attempt failed ; but it brought great good for it 
made people know where Lafayette was imprisoned. 
From every quarter, petitions poured in to the Austrian 
government begging for his release. The Austrians 
would not let him go, but one petition was granted. It 
was from his wife who begged to be allowed to come to 
the prison with her two daughters and share his im- 
prisonment. 

They gave her permission to come ; but they told her 
if she did, she must never expect to set foot outside the 
prison again, and that she must leave behind her every- 
thing that could in the least degree minister to their 
comfort. There was no comfort to Lafayette like having 
his wife with him, and she knew it. Sending her young 
son, who was named George Washington, to America to 
the protection of his illustrious namesake, she entered 
the prison, as she supposed, for life, taking with her 
her two daughters, Anastasia, sixteen years old, and 
thirteen-yeai-old Virginia. Here they stayed for twenty- 
two months. The air they breathed was foul and nox- 
ious. Their food was barely enough to satisfy hunger, 
and that of the coarsest kind. Their cells were dark 
and most uncomfortable. Madame Lafayette's health 
broke down, and it was seen that she must be removed 
from prison or she would die. 

But their sufferings were not to last always. A voice 
spoke for Lafayette which Austria, who had refused the 



THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 29 

entreaties of America, France, and England, dared not 
refuse. Napoleon Bonaparte came to the head of Eu- 
ropean affairs, and Napoleon would not be denied. The 
Austrian commissioners hesitated and equivocated over 
the matter. Bonaparte seized a valuable tea service, 
which had been ijresented by the Empress Catherine, 
and dashed it to the floor, exclaiming, 

' ' Then we will have war ; but remember that in less 
than three months I will demolish your mcmarchy as I 
dash in pieces this porcelain. ' ' 

They knew that he would do what he said ; and they 
decided that it was the part of wisdom to let Lafayette 
go free ; but they said, through one of their ministers, 
that "Lafayette was not liberated at the request of 
France, but merely to show tlie Emperor of Austria's 
consideration for the United States of America." So 
tl'e country for which Lafayette fought was at least given 
a nominal part in obtaining his release. 

Lafayette was grateful to Napoleon, but he would not 
take the honors that Napoleon was very anxious to give 
him if he would only come out on his side. He believed, 
and rightly, that Napoleon's government was against 
that liberty for which he had offered and suffered so 
much. He wouki not do for Napoleon or any other man 
what he believed to be wrong. He went to his country 
home with his wife and daughters, and lived there 
quietly. Napoleon, seeing that he could not bend the 
patriot to his will, was very glad to have him keep there. 
It was a second time when Lafayette, by joining hands 
with tryanny, might have had the very greatest rewards 
and honors bestowed upon him, and refused. But when 
Napoleon fell, Lafayette treated him with the greatest 
kindness and sympathy, and tried to get him awaj^ to 
America before he should fall into the hands of the allies. 
Napoleon realized that the man who had refused to fol- 



30 THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 

low him in prosperity was the truest friend of all when 
adversity came. 

The next event in the life of Lafayette, and an event 
in the annals of our own nation also, was his last visit 
to America in the year 1824. He was an old man by 
this time. Washington, his friend, had been dead thirty 
years. All the major-generals of the Eevolutionary War 
were gone but him. He was so much younger than the 
rest of them that he had outlived them every one. It 
was like a hero stepping out from the pages of the school 
children's histories. Already the events of the Eevolu- 
tion seemed to the children, and their fathers and mothers 
also, as vague and far away as the times of the Civil War 
seem to you. 

Suppose that Lincoln, instead of being killed, had just 
gone to another country, and should come back again 
and pass through your town while you were celebrating 
Lis birthday in the schools ! It was almost as long since 
Lafayette had fought in the Eevolution as it is now since 
Lincoln died. Can't you imagine how the people of our 
country united to welcome him ? how the school-children 
marched out to meet him with songs and flowers, and 
how happy everybody was ? One incident of the time is 
pretty. It was told by "Walt Whitman, the poet, when 
he himself was an old, grayhaired man. He told how 
he had gone out to see Lafayette when he was a little 
fellow five years old ; and how, because he could not see 
over the heads of the crowd, Lafayette himself had lifted 
him up and set him on a big stone so that he could see 
all that was going on. 

We are sure that all the school-children of the day 
thought him a hero. We are sure that all the boys of 
today, who remember how he dashed into battle, and 
how brave and generous he was will think him a hero, 
too. And we are sure that everybody who studies his- 



THE STORY OF LAFAYETTE 31 

character and sees how sincere he was, and how patiently 
he suffered hardships for the sake of libertj'^, giving up 
for the sake of doing it all the luxuries of a beautiful 
and wealthy home, aiid everything that love could give 
or money could buy, will think him a hero. When we 
see how he had a chance greater than Napoleon's of 
making himself king, or emperor, or anything which it 
was in the power of idolizing France to give, and did 
not use it so much as to enrich himself by a single penny, 
but, instead, sacrificed the fortune and honors that were 
his by inheritance — when we see how he used his great 
military genius only for the sake of liberty, and would 
not be bribed nor forced nor cajoled to so much as lift 
his hand to do anything that would not advance the 
principles he believed in — how he poured out his money 
like water, but served without pay, paying his men him- 
self when the government did not send the funds due, 
providing them with clothing and equipment. — we are 
sure that he is one of the greatest heroes who ever fought. 
And he is one whom no one can truthfully accvise of any 
wrong. 

Is not the best summary of his character to be found 
in the three names by which he is called? They are 
better than all the titles of nobility that could be inher- 
ited. He was called *'The Knight of Liberty," the 
"Man of Two Worlds," and, best of all, '^ Lafayette, 
the Friend of the People. " 



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